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dered as a mere fancy or as something that only a 

 remote posterity may live to see ! No, it is within 

 our reach, within less than ten years." Beware, 

 oh ye ship builders, how you invest your money 

 iu ships of the present construction ! 

 " The powers of Philosophy 



Can light on metaphysics bring ; 

 Can touch on selenograpliy, 



And cavises trace unto their spring." 



The best part of this production, and by far the 

 most potent of the author's "machineries," is his 

 sunshine steam engine. The heat is to be gene- 

 rated on the Archimedes plan ; looking glasses are 

 to concentrate the rays of tlie sun, and being 

 placed on pivots, wlien the engine once gets in 

 motion, it will move them, so as to keep pace with 

 the diurnal niotionof that "planet." As an objection 

 might, however, arise that they would not work 

 in the night, or on rainy da)'S, the author is before- 

 hand with the incredulous, and has two remedies 

 for such interruptions: 



" 1) By enveloj)ing the boilers with stuffs that 

 keep the heat the 16ngest in themselves, for in- 

 stance, a thick coat of^ red hot iron or other hot 

 metal, enveloped in a thick coat of clay, loam, 

 sand, or other eartliern material. We might thus 

 continue a heat sufficient to boil water for many 

 hours after the sun had ceased to shine, without 

 consuming any material. 



2) By contriving a re-acting power, caused by 

 the power of the steam, of which liereafter will be 

 given the description, and by which many days, 

 and even many months the power of steam, caused 

 by sun-shine, may react at will, and thus be ren- 

 dered perpetual, no matter how often or 1)0W long 

 the sun-shine may be interrupted. 



The interruption of sun-shine, in this applica- 

 tion, is therefore immaterial." 



There's " machineries" for you ; in the language 

 of Mr. Etzler, "to what awful grandeur may not 

 the human race exalt themselves," and individuals, 

 it vvould appear, may do likervisely. lie sums up 

 the sunshine business thus : — 



" The power of steam is therefore subject to no 

 limits, its requisites being sunshine, water, and 

 solid stuffs for confining and applying the steam, of 

 which there is no limit, no materials being con- 

 sumed. 



The generating of steam-power is not the only 

 use to be made of burning mirrors ; they may be 

 applied also to various other purposes of great im- 

 portance, as I shall show hereafter. 



Have t asserted too much, when promising to 

 show, that there are powers in nature million times 

 greater than the whole human race is able to effect 

 by their united efforts of nerves and sinews.'"' 



In " part second" of the volume, he gives a 

 description of things as they are "at present," and 

 as they will be " by the new means." Our quo- 

 tations here might be extended very beneficially, 

 but the state of beatitude we are to enjoy in " ten 

 years," is too delightful to promulgate extensively, 

 without spoiling people for every day things as 

 they now are. That children will grow up by the 

 aid of " machineries," " most cleanly and beauti- 

 fully dressed," is a consummation which will pro- 

 cure Mr. E. many female subscribers. We pro- 

 mise him half a dozen at once, and have no kind 

 of question, that with a moderate exertion, we, 

 could fill a subscription paper as large as one of 

 his land sails. j- 



" The children grow up without trouble, in all 

 the innocence, intelligence, cheerful and playful 

 temper, natural to their age, with blooming health 

 and countenance, most cleanly and beautifully 

 dressed, and exhibiting thus to the eyes of their 

 parents the lovely attributes of angels. This is 

 no more than what the arrangements stated war- 

 rant. 



Wliatever is to be known of man, children may 

 have learned at the age of 8 — 10 years, by mere 

 beholding, handling, and examining the things 

 exhibited to them in the palace and gardens, just 

 with no more trouble, neither to the teacher nor 

 to the children, than they learn now their mother- 

 tongue. 



Men have there an equal chance for learning. 

 They will learn there in one year more than the 

 most learned could learn in all his life. And there 

 will be as much difference between the intellect of 

 man in the new state and that of the present, as 

 there is now between the most learned and the 

 most ignorant. 



The knowledges are made beneficial to the 

 highest possible degree for every human being at 

 once." 



This valuable work closes with a petition to 

 Congress, for aid in the commencement, and one to 

 the President, in which he threatens to sell to the 

 first bidder, European or American. It is to be 

 apprehended, that the wisdom now in Washington, 

 is too deeply engaged in politics, to see their true 

 interests in this matter, and that if the daily papers 

 do not soon take up the subject, the projected bene- 

 fits to this country will be entirely lost. 



FENCES — YELLOW LOCUST. 



From tlie Genesee Farmer. 



The farmers of western New- York, have often 

 been exhorted to make provision ipr fencing their 

 farms, when the timber suitable for that purpose, 

 now standing on them, shall have been exhausted; 

 but it is very evident that the suliject has not re- 

 ceived that attention which its importance demands. 

 Several farms in my vicinity are without the mate- 

 rials to repair the fences, and the owners are pur- 

 chasing rails; yet no measures have been taken to 

 provide for the future. 



When a country is first cleared, the crooked rail 

 fence is perhaps the best that can be made ; but 

 when timber becomes scarce, and the stumps have 

 mostly disappeared, it is time to supply the place 

 of these unsightly fences with such as will occupy 

 less ground, and be more pleasing to the eye. 



The thorn, thorn locust, crab apple, &c. have 

 been recommended for hedges, but I believe com- 

 paratively few farmers have attempted to cultivate 

 either of them for that purpose. The thorn, 

 although it answers well in the humid climate of 

 Great Britain, is of slow growth here, and the beau- 

 tiful hedges of that material which adorned the 

 state of Delaware previous to the revolutionary 

 war, have mostly perished. Judge Buel is a warm 

 advocate of the three-thorned Acacia; butE. Hersy 

 Derby states that after a fair trial, he found it not 

 to answer the purpose. He recommends the Ame- 

 rican Buckthorn, which he says, at the age of three 

 years, presented a sufficient fence. 



Now, although I would not discourage any from 

 attempting to raise hedges, yet having come to the 

 conclusion that I can do better, i shall proceed to 



